The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar. You can check Twenty Ten Theme Demo.

Hi I am trying to disable or remove the comments boxes from my static pages in this theme but havent been able to. Some site say its a simple setting but i can not locate it. If you could give any feedback to that specific issue it would be greatly appreciated. For example, on my about page: http://www.anythinggoespodcast.com/about/
I dont see any reason to have a comments box. How should i go about removing it? If i need to change the text details in the pages’ scripts please let me know where to modify and with whay verbiage, as well as if anything needs to be removed. Thanks, if you can comment on this.

I looked for the options Allaboutbasic mentioned, i dont have them on my theme “twenty ten”.

As far as what Om suggested, I tried placing the text in the script but cant seem to get it right. I keep getting a syntax error when i include

#comments {
clear: both;
display: none;
}
anywhere I try to place it, i get the same error. It sometimes mentions a line where the error occured but thats it. Could you be more specific as to where the text needs to be inserted and if it has to be placed in more than 1 place as I have .php files for multiple things on my page (i.e. archives, header, footer, etc).
Thanks for your input so far.

FYI. I found a different way to solve this issue. There is a plug in called “No Comments On Pages” that simply disables comments on all pages once activated. I installed it and activated it and since I want no comments on my site at all, it works perfectly.

Thanks for the help anyway. Hopefully this update will help someone else.

Actually Dennis, I am using and Mentioned “Theme Enterprise” not “Twenty Ten” . I didn’t get the “Discussion Tick Box” in my present theme. Thats why i mentioned the solution provided by Mytex may not be applicable for other themes.

Simon, I didn’t get any option by which you can display comments on each post as on your home page. Actually I am using WordPress Self Hosted Blogging Platform thats why I am unable to give you a solution by installing Additional Plugins for WordPress which will meet your demand.

I hope you will search (google) and get additional Plugins for wordpress and by installing that plugins you will be able to display comments on each post on your home page of Twenty Ten Theme.

Also I will Appreciate, If you get the solution and Let us know How you solved this problem(by installing plugins or any other way) by replying through commets.

What I’m trying to do is on my main page with all my posts is have the picture from the post to the left and then first few sentences of the post after it. Just like how this site has it. http://www.thepensblog.com

Hi.. thanks 4 the tuts.. i’m new to this and find the info in this blog very helpful.. 🙂 i have made several changes on my blog, like font style.. etc. but i’m still working on several issue (and still confuse) like:
1. how to change font style in widgets area..?
2. how to clear the space at the top of the header?
3. My friend recommended me to use Advance Excerpt Plugins on my blog, so i do not need to set “read more” every time i add new post but in stuck in step; replacing the code become in index.php i couldn’t find the code. Do you have any idea?

You are very kind, but after your answer to the header question I think I will change to Duster theme, which seems easier with both questions. I see you also have a page for it, which I will use (and probably have more questions). Thank you very much.

Please let me know how to adjust the area for the article ( maybe it call coloum) i want to make it a little bit wider.. and i want to adjust the sidebar space little bit narrow. and how to find the current size of it..?

i still cannot use it.. 🙂 so i use manual method, hehe… btw i have problem in single.php maybe you can help me with this problem..? if you enter to one of my pages i.e >> http://bit.ly/glhY8c at the bottom there are Amazon product (i put the code on single.php), but it doesn’t have the “Content Column” how to add the “Content Column” on the products..? do you have any idea? so it can display nicely… and has a place & background. your help very much appreciated.

is there a way to put a custom image (border) around the navigation bar and the content, before the footer area? something similar to the blue border of this site : http://www.trophycupcakes.com/ please help!!!

Hi There
i installed the new wordpress 3.1.1 in arabic and using the default theme, in the old version i was able to add anything on the side bar

in the new version i noticed i can only add links or image under the ‘secondary-widget-area’

but i need to be able to add such as hotels search box under the default search box or on top of side bar or under archieve and the new posts
i tried it and this didnt work with me
waiting your help
thanx

Hi
for understanding to what i want i send link below this,you can see how link work in underline and posted in word (category). :-http://www.mitchellkphotos.com/blog/. you see heder .how i change it this type.
please reply.
thanks.

Hi Om,
I am asking about title size, font thickness.and side of title. i think that link title space from right side & top pad is more broad. i don know how is this possible.so please help me make my site that kind.
Thanks again.
and i want to link from my blog to my photoshelter gallery from navigation menu. how i do this?

Vinod vai..
actually the site which u gave me as reference used Image as Header Text. So it would better for me if you kindly give me the header Title font color…
moreover you can try the following code….just paste them at the bottom of style.css

Hi Om,
that look beautiful but i don’t ask about used image. i ask about title font size and thickness.
The mitchell kanashkevich word seen very beautiful. but my title not seen like that. so what i do.
and please suggest me how i link my photoshelter gallery and flickr gallery at navigation bar.
please suggest me about link.

Hi Om bhai,
according to title font style i have the font (IrisUPC) is right font but they seem bold. how i make that non bold .
please reply . very thankful your kind of help. if you want some fees i am ready to pay.
thank you very much.

but..it would better for you to use Image as header text in you Twenty Ten theme…because…if any of your blog visitor doesn’t have IrisUPC font installed in his pc then it may happen that he will be unable to see your header text perfcectly.

It will be highly motivative for me if you pay me…i do appreciate it… do you prefer paypal?

Hi Om Bhai,
do you not reply how can i pay you?
please reply.
and suggest me how i add image in link which show when link open in address bar .
i see your image that god Shri krishnji.
how it happen.
please reply.

URL means Address…. You have to prepare a small image called favicon to show it in the addressbar…there are several website which offers free favicon icon generator. favicon is actually a 16×16 or 32×32 px small image.
So, you prepare a favicon icon….upload it…and give me the address…..

Also send me the header.php file so that i could past the code perfectly in it .

Vinod vai…. I am leaving from office now… I will answer your question after i have reached home….

” How i add my website link in navigation bar. ” would you mind to clear me this question? i didn’t understand…. and as my office is closing now i will give u the solution after reaching home… i.e .. after 1.3 hours

Om bhai.
tomorrow is holiday.
so i will contact you Monday for my website link in navigation bar like mitchell kanashkevich. you check that blog and send me solution,one more thing i want to icon of tweeter in header .
thanks
have good weekend my friend.

Would like to change the width of the menu hover … did so (I thought) by changing the width in “#access ul ul a {“…unfortunately, the difference between the original 160px; and me changing it into a 100px; became white/visible…(see http://www.avonturiers.nl) What else should be changed / added to make it nicely fit again?

Hi – thanks so much for the info on this page, it’s been really helpful to me as a beginner!

I have a couple of questions and I was wondering if you could please help? My blog theme is twenty ten at WP.

1. I’d like to use CSS to remove the link from the date under the blog posts so that the text remains but the link disappears (I’ve already got rid of the ‘posted on’ and the ‘posted by [author]’ text.

2. I’ve deleted the ‘categories’ and ‘tags’ lists at the bottom of the posts on the homepage but they are still there when you view the post in the archives – do you know the CSS code to remove them?

Actually as you are using wordpress.com self hosted blog (me too also) we can’t change the HTML code to remove the hyperlink as you mentioned in your 1st question..but you can try this one..to remove the underline from the Date field in Twenty Ten theme. Just paste this at the bottom of your style.css

.entry-meta a:link {
text-decoration: none;
}

2. About Categories and Tag lise from the bottom of the posts……. Would you mind to try this?

Hi – sorry, can’t see my original comment on this page so am starting a new one.

Thank you for the code you suggested. The first one works perfectly, except that it only changes the entry-meta on the first post on my homepage, and all the rest are still the same – do you know how to make all the rest of them non-underlined also please? Here’s a link to the blog, so you can see what I mean, thank you:http://caribbeanlivingblog.com/

The second code won’t work I don’t think, as I’d like to keep the comments option there. To remove the tags and categories from the homepage I used:

.cat-links {
display:none;
}

.tag-links {
display:none;
}

So I guess I just need to add something to these to make sure they are also removed in the archived posts, I just don’t know what it is I need to add!

Hi Elly…
Yes.. i checked your other pages..and found the underline is showing….not sure it is hard coded or not…. i will check it more…
Your site is too loaded that it takes time to load every page… which is not good for SEO…
another thing
The second code which i have provided you…is for the tags/categories… not for comments…

.entry-utility {
display: none;
}

also..can u give me the link of any post of your archive page? it would better to mention precisely..

hello: i am a super green newbie. i understand the directions, but do not know into which folder to make the change. i want to remove the black navigation bar in my twenty ten. what folder\heading do i go into to? also, where do i make the insert and what do i delete? i also need to remove the seach bar on the right side along with the archives/meta/site admin & log out. thank you for your help

FIrst off, I will tell you I am new to WordPress. I am building a website and one of the main things I would like to build is something called “Today in Twins History”. I envision something that gives users a chance to enter a month and a date and this would then search a MySql database (maybe) to tell the user whtat happened to the Twins on that date through out their 50+ year history. Any suggestions for a non-techie? Thank you. John

Hi. How can I reduce the padding between my Page Title/Entry Title and the share buttons underneath it? I’d also like to tighten the space between the share buttons and the the next line of text that appears on each of my pages and posts. (I think these three lines: title, buttons, and first line of text for page/post are taking up way too much vertical space.) DiggDigg doesn’t seem to have any settings for this and I’ve tried to write my own code (like you have above) to paste as a snippet into Weaver. That hasn’t worked yet and I am really only guessing with code. Do you have any ideas? (These comments are about the website I list below with my signature.)Thank you.

Hi Christy Thanks for your comments…
I think you are searching for this code..Please let me know if the following code works for you or not..
If you want to reduce Space between Entry Title and Share Button
.entry-content, .entry-summary {
clear: both;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
padding-top: 1px;
}

Thank you very much! It worked and looks so much better! I am using the WordPress plugin, “Digg Digg” for the buttons. I like it other than the spacing isn’t perfectly even. Do you know how to solve this issue, too? 🙂
Thank you for your help. I never would have written this code on my own!

I tried this code and the spacing between the buttons was better, but they still were not perfectly aligned. After searching plugins, I discovered “Easy Buttons” and installed that plugin. I like it much better since it doesn’t take up space on the pages of my site. Instead, the buttons appear on the far right-hand side of the screen.

Hi ! Great Article, any chance you could answer a newbie question for me ?
I want to change the styling for posts according to categories in the twenty ten theme. I can do this for the post itself, however am struggling to do this for the entry title. How would I address this in the style.css file ? I know I have to change “#content .entry-title {” but how ?
Cheers Vic

Unfortunately, its a sandbox installation at this stage.
The bit I’m trying to change from ordinary post to the one in a specific category is
In the the style.css file
#content .entry-title { /* post title font */
color: #980000;
font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’,’Helvetica’,’Arial Black’,’Arial’,San-serif;
/*font-family: Georgia,”Times New Roman”,Times,serif;*/
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: 400;
text-shadow: 0 1px #AAAAAA;
/*font-style: italic;*/
}
The bit that works is :-
/* House Rules Sections */
.category-house-rules{
color: #78FF4B;
}
I’m just confused about the correct naming conventions.
What do I change “#content .entry-title” to style the title of the post for the “House Rules Category” ?
Cheers …Vic

You were kind enough to help me with social media buttons last week. I wonder if you can work your wonders on my latest issue…

In my sidebar, I have two post categories: tools & appliances and blog. I also have two link categories: product reviews and reference. I am using the avh extended categories plugin to show these two separate post categories and so far, that is working well.

Here is my question, is there a way to have my sidebar appear in this order: tools & appliances, product reviews, blog, and reference? I don’t see a way to insert my product review links between two post categories.

My website is the one in my signature below and I’d appreciate any advice you have…Best regards,Christy

Hi Christy…
Thanks again for your comments…..
If your plugins doesn’t facilitate to order them according to user’s requirement then you can try by modifying the related php codes (though it may be tough).
So, Without checking the functionality..i can’t answer that….
Sorry for that Christy…
Regards
Om

Hi, I have the CSS upgrade on TwentyTen. I’ve noticed that the caption text size (that appear under images) is too large for my liking (seems to be the same size as normal text. On most themes, the caption text is quite small – which I like). Any idea how I can reduce the caption font size using CSS upgrade? Thanks if you can help.

Thanks again Om! post content font is also working fine. I’m able to add line below menu bar but would like to add one more 4px line below that; also there is white space on both the sides of menu and footer, how to fill that?

It might to difficult to setup time for the chat but you can mail me on the email associated with this comment.

Thanks Om, sorry for late reply. both the tips works but how to make width of main area to 980px so that it will match with the main sites pages. I tried changing at below place but width increases but menu line remains same, I’m also not sure at how many other places I need to take care of widths, like menu, sidebar etc.
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 940px; ///changed to 980px
}

regarding 4 px line below menu bar can you please send me a mail or just explain in which php file I need to add hr tag.

I have tried using a header which incorporates “Hogan Wood Drying Racks and A simple way to reduce your footprint” with the background image but the background image in the header and the “real” background image don’t line up so it doesn’t look good.

The only way I can think to solve this is to change the opacity of the header so the background image is visible. Then upload a header image with “Hogan Wood Drying Racks and A simple way to reduce your footprint” and my logo. I have tried this but the background of the header is white.

How can I edit the CSS in the Twenty Ten theme so that when I format text in my blog posts to ‘Heading 2’ and ‘Heading 3’ they don’t change font. In other words I’d like my H2 and H3 fonts to be the same as the regular font for posts?

You need to paste the code at the bottom of style.css..but it would better if you cleared me which H1 or H2 you want to change.. as the code i am giving you may not work if it it overriding by other code.

Do you mean you’re not sure what text I’d like to change? On my posts, the first paragraph is formatted as a H3 tag (you will see text is big). The last paragraph is formatted as a H2 tag (text is really big). I’d like these tagged paragraphs to appear in the same font size as the body of the post. I’m obviously using the H2/H3 tags to improve SEO. Sorry if I’m making this confusing!

1. You can manage more space at the top of your site header by modifying the php file (header.php).
2. Paste the following code at the bottom of style.css to make your sidebar little bit bigger.. (pls check it and let me know..)

I tried this code without success. Need it little over half the size??
.entry-title a:link, .entry-title a:visited {
color: #000000;
font-size: 1.2em;
text-decoration: none;
}
Is this the right one? Thanks, I guess I need to buy you a coffee maker instead of a cup…

I still can make it work. You can see on front page, or the page titled “Kontakt” how big space is between text lines. I’ve edited something and some of the text on the first page is ok now, but the rest, under it, is still with lot of space between.

Ok I did some things to my website and I think I messed it up. I tried uninstalling the 2010 theme and then reinstalling it but the css code did not revert to the original one. I am trying to make a website and not a blog. I am trying to figure out how to change the blog background color to something else other than black and am also trying to figure out how to get rid of that meta and archives crap. The website is http://www.monsterponics.com I am a newbie and learning this as I go.

Ok I have been dabbling with it for a little bit, but am not sure how to change the blog background from grey to white? I previously deleted all the sidebar.php files but then put them back in to see if that would make a difference, but it hasnt. I previously changed the blog background color to grey, but now want to change it to white or something else.

I had everything set up then I tried changing the site blog background to white and it didnt work. I tried reinstalling everything and its still showing up grey, I would also like to change text color and text size for the header tabs.

Oh, also.. If you look below each post, you’ll find the tags and categories. i was wondering if I can move the tags and categories to the top of the posts and leave the comment link under it. Can i do that?

Hi, A Question Adding this coded to the style.css remove my site title and the other code my site description, i’m not sure if the search engines can see my site or blogs title after the modifications. Is it just hide ?….

Never mind! this is my web site http://www.sport2win.com ; If you notice , under the menu bar there is a sticky post with red and blu font ; I’d like to change it or better remove it; When i put on evidence two posts , the second one is much better because it’s well integrated with the theme and has short story ; Is it possible to do the same thing with first sticky post?

Yes, i’ve installed theme extensions for twenty eleven; I’ don’t know if this feature is included in it or not; In Post “quick edit” i only put a tick on “put on evidence this post” …. The problem is font color first and the second is that there is only the post title…

Hello OM,
Thank you so much for helping us beginners customize our blogs. Your info on the 2010 theme was terrific. I don’t know if I missed this, but can you please tell me how to get the search bar in the navigation menu? I really like how it looks in the 2011 but I don;t want to change my theme at this time.
Thanks again for your superb information!!
Geralyn

Hi Om,
Thank you for your reply. I have not fixed this issue. If you could please take a look at the blog site unitedboomersofamerica.com/blog you will see there is no search bar in the navigation menu. Like I said in my prior post, I am a newbie at this so I am still learning how to manipulate my widgets and so forth. Any help would be greatly appreciated. We are so lucky to have someone like you to turn to for WP support.
I loo forward to your response.
Thanks again!!
Geralyn

Is it possible to customize drop down for the archives?
The website I’m working on is dark and the white Archives drop down menu is standing out too much. The drop down option I choose from the default option in archives.
Thank you 🙂
Olena

Hello Om,
Sorry for not being clear.
I need to make the “white field” of the archives of drop down menu a darker color same as Search box right now, change the drop down arrow to custom color on up and over and change text inside of drop down menu to dark grey instead of black to match the site. I have tried a bunch of ways, but still cant figure it out.
Thank you very much for looking in to it,
Olena

Hello Om,
I was wondering if I was able to convey what I’m looking for?
I can put together image files to demonstrate exactly what I’m trying modify.
Please let me know if it can be helpful.
Thanks a bunch,
Olena

Hello Om,
Thank you for the respond!!!!
Strange thing… The code will work only if I separately write it as shown below. It will not change the color of the text any other way…?… but it works now, so I guess I’ll just let it be 🙂

I was looking for a way how to change the font color in my blog post headings and came across your tips. I did apply what you wrote under “Page Title/Entry Title font color” and it did work, well: partially. The strange things is that the entry title color was only changed on the first page, where only the first part of the blog post is displayed. When I click an entry title to see the full post, the heading is again black…

When I write a blog post sometimes I highlight parts of the text by bolding it. I would like to appear all bold text automatically in a certain color, in each article I write. So I was wondering if it is possible to set a default for that somewhere in the style sheet, so that I don’t have to adjust the color of bolded text manually all the time.

Hi David,
yes, you can easily do the job by using some css rule…
Would u mind to share me the link of that page where u used that bolded text? Also.. let me know which color u prefer for the bolded text…

By the way: I am going through your list, trying to find where I can adjust ALL fonts in ALL written text to Verdana. Is that possible? Or do I have to gho through each and every instance where font family comes up in the CSS? The thing is that in the twenty eleven tips you mention ‘font family’ but I can nowhere find that attribute in the twenty eleven style sheet…

The issue is: I can’t find any ‘font family’ in the style sheet of twenty ELEVEN (sorry, I know, this should better go under your twenty eleven post not under this twenty TEN post)… I looked for the body attribute and found some, but not in connection with the font family attribute. Even when I look only for the term font family I get an error message. Strange. So I can’t change the font.

When you’re back: is there a way to significantly decrease the empty space between the tagline and the header at the very top?? This space is so big (at least in twenty ten and twenty eleven) that it moves the content unnecessarily lower. I have already applied what you wrote at the twenty eleven article about the blank space above the site title.

Thanks for the additional tip, so far everything worked out just fine 🙂

I came across another issue: I am tryingto create a blog post that contains more then 60.000 words (it’s a very long table with words and numbers). I saved the text also in a rtf file and I see therefore that is has a bit less than 1MB in size. Well, when I copy the text into the WP post and want to do a preview, I get the following error message:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 933160 bytes) in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/wp-includes/post.php on line 2554 (I exchanged some info with XXXXX here). Any idea on how to solve this?

A second question would be: is it possible to link within this post? I mean: since the info is very wide spread, I would like ot give the reader the option of a list at the very beginning where with a click the reader will be automatically jump down to the spot s/he wants to be, in order to avoid excessive scrolling.

In the meantime the memory issues is solved. I contacted my hosting company and they adjusted the memory in the php.ini file.

I am facing another serious challenge now: since the post I want to publish is very long (70.000 words), the post remains blank after saving it. I have tried to save it as post and as a page but the result stays always the same: a blank page…. I have tried splitting it up into pieces, which works, but it’s just a second option and I’d prefer to publish the whole thing instead of 10 different pieces. Is there any plugin or other solution about this? I have tried it with twenty eleven as well as another theme (clear light blue), always the same issue though.

Umm..Just check..
The content is missing somehow.. without checking it cant say anything..
If you are doing copy paste from ur word document to wordpress post…then check any unwanted character or something is inserting or not..though the possibility is low..

Thanks so much for all your support! Indeed there must have been a certain character or command that WordPress didn’t like. I didn’t find out what exactly but that’s not so important because in the end I was able to filter out the part that disturbed WordPress, so that I am online now with my list: http://kohlenhydrate-tabellen.com/kohlenhydrate-tabellen/ 🙂

The only strange thing now is that when I want to do adjustments to that list is that I have to work in the html view because if I choose the visual view then the whole tables get messed up… well, I guess that’s the price I have to pay for being allowed to reuse this table from a university and thus not having to collect all the data by myself… 🙂

One question for the time being: as you can see, the font is not Verdana. What code would I have to enter in the html view of this page in order to adjust the font of all tables to Verdana? I did adjust that in the style sheet but somehow this is overridden by the font of the table.

Thank you for writing such a thorough article – you have answered so many questions for me!

A problem I am having is that I adjusted the content area on my blog (http://hernewleaf.wordpress.com) to 550px to allow for a larger sidebar – the code you provided worked well, but when I try to widen the sidebar to anything larger than 240px, it falls to the bottom of the page. I would love to have it be (at least) 300px wide. Perhaps it’s to do with my content, not the code. Do you have any suggestions for trouble-shooting this problem?

I am also interested in adding a navigation bar below the header with an image as the background, as opposed to a solid box of color. Do you know if this is possible?

Again, thank you SO MUCH! I have learned just as much reading through the comments as I did on your original post. Thank you!

I just created a new website with wordpress and am trying to change the color and font size of my site title and site description. I went into style.css and changed the color to red (FF0000) and tried to increase the size. It appeared to have updated my changes, but when I checked my home page, nothing had changed.

I am using 2010, and HostGator. Perhaps I need to do it through my c-panel with HostGator, instead. I’ve been banging my head against the wall with this problem all weekend! Please help. I’m such a non-techie…

Hello again! I would love some help editing the menu below my header. I want the background to be gray (#cccccc) and the links to be white (#ffffff). I would also like to be able to change the font of the links to a sans serif font.

Om,
I have installed the Twenty Eleven theme, appears to look the same as Twenty Ten, I’m looking to eliminate the Header and remove the search bar on top, then adjust the padding to snug the banner to the top of page, CAN you help….I’ll buy more than a coffee…. http://www.powerhousegymhhi.com

OM, AWESOME, you just saved me a ton of time, the Title and search gone, and love how the banner it spaced at the top….Your’re the BEST!!!! If I have any other questions, I’ll come back and ask and get you more coffee…..smiling….

WOW, again awesome. I’m assuming I can play with that % number to widen it further if I want. I don’t want to go to wide where it looks weird….Enjoy the coffee, I’m heading to the gym, then coffee. Lost 25 pounds since Feb 1st this year….Again, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for all of the info here. It has been really helpful. But I still have a problem, actually two problems within the 2011 theme.
First, i have replaced my home page with a splash page (with a .swf file). I have a function time that sends the index page to the first page of the site, home. Now having said that:
I also replaced the site title with an logo image and now it is no longer clickable to return to the home page. And now that the index is actually a splash page when a visitor would click on the featured image, it returns them to the splash page en lieu of the actual home page.
I hope that is not too confusing. I am working on a redo of this site for a class project and I am just really stuck. I am familiar with php, but apparently not as familiar as I should be.
Here’s the site: ebisusushisd.com/v2. It’s a work in progress.

Hello, is it possible to upload a new font into the Twenty Ten theme? I downloaded a “hand-written” font from the internet, but now I want to use it on a webpage. If it’s possible, how can I do this best, ’cause I’m not that good with CSS.

I hope it’s not too late to ask a question on this thread. I have an upgraded 2010 theme, and though I know a fair amount of html and css, I find the css sheet and template system unusually complex. Anyway, I’d like to modify a couple of things. After each entry title there is entry-meta, and after the post there is another entry-meta (or perhaps it’s called post-meta). Above the post is this: Posted on December 31, 2012 by My Name.

1. I’d like to get rid of the words “Posted on.”
2. I’d like to increase the spacing between the date, the word ‘by,’ and My Name.
3. to change the font style and family of any of that text at will. Especially I’d like My Name to be in italics.
As to the second set of meta info, I’d like to get rid of “Posted in (whatever category) and leave only the “Leave a comment.”

It all worked, like magic, and even enabled me to modify a few other things. A couple more things, for which I will of course buy you a coffee.
1. I was able to transform the author’s name font style (in entry-meta), but not its size. I’d like to increase it by at least one point, say from 12 (which is what I think it is now) to 14.
2. I’d like to put a border just below the post content ( 2px width, 50%length, color=navy) and before the entry-utility.
3. And finally a hard rule or border after the entry-utility to separate one post from another.

Mostly it’s worked quite well. Your last suggestion didn’t give me quite what I wanted with the borders, but a little tweaking and a hard code in a couple of templates did the trick. You can see what it looks like here: http://williamluse.net/Apologia

The main thing I haven’t been able to figure out is that the font size of the site-title on the author archive page (accessed by clicking on my name at the top of the post) has fallen from its normal 30px to about 15 px, and so have the entry titles for each post. They seem to have been overridden by this:

However, that’s how you fixed the font-size of the author’s name, and I certainly don’t want to lose that. Under font-style I changed ‘italics’ to none, because that changed everything on the author archive page to italics except for the post content. But the italics weren’t that important anyway.

Everything seems to be ok on all the pages except that one, the author archives.

Donation made. One last thing and then I’ll leave you alone. Any idea how to put a 2px border to the right of the sidebar, and another one under each of the widget areas in the sidebar? I ask only because I’ve been struggling to do this for a couple of days and have had no luck.